The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-09
TWO CITY YOUNG PEOPLE
 FARMING.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
 Here'sa little picture of Long Island domesticity, which an artist sketched a few nights ago in the back parlor of a Fifth avenue house. It is a free hand drawing, warranted to be true to life:
 "I hadn't seen George and Marie" he began, "for just a year, so I ran down to the farm last week to sur prise 'em and see how crops were do- ing"
 George and Marie, it is time to re- mark, are two young people who have seen some eighteen months of matri- mony. Georges father is a million aire; Marie's is one three or four times over, and the old gentleman played a practical joke on the young couple by persuading them to farm it down on Long Island under certain conditions, which it is not necessary to set forth here.
 "The only crop found," the artist continued, twas an egg crop. I got to the farm at noon. Didn't see a soul about the house; went in the front door on tip-toe, heard a noise like the beating of biscuits in the kitchen; crept in there and found Marie, her white arms barred to the elbow, ham, mering away at great wad of dough with rolling-pin. George was on his knees, poking at the fire. I shouted, but wouldn't shake hands too much dough aud soot.
 "While we talked the pot boiled and bread baked, Marie opening the oven door every half minute to see if the biscuits were rising. A yellow turkey gobbler walked into the kitchen and picked up a lump of dough from the table. He must have stood over three feet when he raised his head.
 "'Shoo-op I began, but Marie slapped her pretty, dimpled, doughy hand over my mouth.
 "'Dear Cousin Charles, do not mind Dicky,' she murmured, 'he has come in to layv
 "Dick come in to iay!
 "The dear little woman, will you believe me, fetched shawl from her work basket, and arranging it turban fashion, placed it on the lounge-yes, lounge! Think of it, lounge in the kitchen. And it is positive fact that she patted that gobbler on the head and showed him the nest she had made, and, by George, if he didn't get on the lounge and lay in the shawl. Pll swear to it. I'll be ha-well, he did it anyhow.
 "By and by, when Marie had looked at the buscuit for the tenth time, q hen came in crying 'car-car- car car car ca-r-.'
 "'Bring Ella's nest, George said the good housewife.
 George dashed away and got a last summers poke bonnet, which he placed, bottom up, on the lounge. Ella watched every movement, and when the bonnet was ready, in she hopped. In two minutes she got out as if a snake had bitten her. What an unearthly racket she did raise. Kuck- kuck- kuck-a'-and away she scam- pered. l looked into the bonnet and found fresh egg.
 "Before the buscuit were well Drowned, a turkey hen came in and laid her head in Marie's lap.
 Run, get Madge's basket, George, dear
 "George dear did as he was bid, and by the time the biscuit were done there was third egg laid in the kitchen. The turkeys didn't make any fuss about it, either Marie has one hen that positively refuses to lay anywhere except on her and Georges bed. She hangs around the room until the bed is made up, when she takes her place just where the pillows meet. When she goes away she sings: Lay -an-egg-a-da go-ba- foot"
 Charles" said one of the artists auditors, "are you sure the gobbler laid an egg?"
 "I don't know anything about it being gobbler. I am not in the poul- try line. Marie said it was gobbler, and George didn't correct her. And anyway the things name is Dick" --->-->~Ms~-<---